All the settlers found it easy to get land in the West. In eighteen sixty-two, Congress had passed the Homestead Act.

所有的定居者都发现在西部很容易获得土地。1862年，国会通过了《宅基地法》。

Settlement under the Homestead Act of 1862.

根据 1862 年宅基地法定居。

Now let's turn to our second topic, the Homestead Act of 1862.

现在让我们转向我们的第二个话题，即 1862 年的宅基地法案。

The Homestead Act was the law in the United States for more than 100 years.

宅地法是美国 100 多年来的法律。

The Homestead Act, or law, of 1862 encouraged people to move westward as the United States expanded.

随着美国的扩张，1862 年的宅基地法鼓励人们向西迁移。

It's this second definition of " homestead" that is referred to in the Homestead Act of 1862.

这是 1862 年宅基地法中提到的“宅基地”的第二个定义。

Thus the harvester, under McCormick's comprehensive selling plans, did as much as the homestead act in opening up this great farming region.

因此，在 McCormick 的综合销售计划下，收割机在开辟这个伟大的农业区方面所做的工作与宅基地一样多。

In many ways, the Homestead Act of 1862 was responsible for populating the western United States, or at least many areas of it.

在许多方面，1862 年的宅基地法案对美国西部或至少许多地区的人口增长负有责任。

In the immigration measure guaranteeing a continuous and adequate labor supply, the manufacturers saw an offset to the Homestead Act of 1862 granting free lands to settlers.

- 在保证持续和充足劳动力供应的移民措施中，制造商看到了对1862年《宅地法》的抵消， 该法案向定居者提供免费土地。

It wasn't until 1976 that the government repealed, or got rid of, the Homestead Act and put a new act, or new law, into its place.

直到 1976 年， 政府才废除或废除宅基地法，并制定了新法案或新法律。

Blacks would remain free but they would definitely be second class citizens thanks to the Homestead Act in the new transcontinental rail roads and another round of ethnic cleansing against Indians, the wide open spaces were filling up.

黑人继续拥有自由，但是他们当然是二等公民多亏了《宅地法》横跨美国大陆的铁路以及对印第安人的又一轮种族清洗，西部的广袤大陆都成了美国的领土。

We're also going to talk about a very important law in the middle of the nineteenth century that changed the way the United States grew as a country, something called the Homestead Act of 1862.

我们还将讨论 19 世纪中叶一项非常重要的法律，它改变了美国作为一个国家的发展方式，即 1862 年的宅地法案。